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GroupMail 5 Update v.5.2.0.085 Released

The latest version of GroupMail 5 (v 5.2.0.085) was released today and is available to download from our Customer Resources Area. This release includes: New: 2 New Holiday Templates for 4th of July New: Code highlighting in View Source New: Message Editor – show account manager screen on send when no “From” account configured Fix: [...]

ZDNet UK reviews GroupMail

The Editors at ZDNet UK recently reviewed GroupMail Business Edition,they gave it a rating of “Excellent” 8.3 out of 10 across the categories – Service & support, Design, Features and Performance. Happy to see Service & support getting a high score, it’s something we put a lot of time and effort into. There were a [...]

New GroupMail Release for Windows 7

Well tomorrow is the official launch date for Microsoft Windows 7 and from playing around with beta versions since April and more recent releases it appears to be a much less troublesome animal that its infamous predecessor that shall remain nameless (don’t mention the war). We have a new release of GroupMail (version 5.2.0.80) that supports [...]

Internet Explorer 8 & GroupMail

There have been reports that certain providers are having problems if you use IE8 to read your emails – it seems the links that are encoded in the email do not work. We’ve been doing some testing with GroupMail, and we don’t seem to be having any such problems – however if you notice anything [...]

St. Patrick’s Day Email Templates

Ryan was good enough to put together a few email templates for St. Patrick’s day       These can be downloaded from here. To use them in GroupMail, extract the files from the downloaded zip, and in the Message Editor choose File->Import->HTML Document. Personally the thoughts of drinking pints of green liquid doesn’t really [...]

GroupMail 5.2.0.075 Released

Last year the GroupMail releases were a bit scarce on the ground (sum total of one), needless to say that was not part of the plan with people waiting for various new enhancements and fixes, but nevertheless that was the end result. Long story short, let’s just say a number of things we worked on [...]

Email Deliverability – Getting Started

One of the biggest challenges in email marketing is email deliverability – no point in preparing a great newsletter if no one receives it, right? There is a lot info out there, but it would take several years of your life to implement all the ideas. So, I’ve put together four simple tips, that won’t [...]

Email Marketing Software vs Service

A question we get asked a lot here is, why would a customer choose email marketing software (such as GroupMail) over a service. Personally (and granted I might be a tiny bit biased here), I believe there are a number of advantages … 1. GroupMail runs from your PC – all of your data is [...]

Email Marketing – Text or Html emails?

There is much debate in the email marketing community on whether you should send “text only”, or html email marketing campaigns .. Some believe that “text only” is better, as it has more chance of been delivered to the inbox – while on the other hand the html heads believe html is better, as people [...]

Happy New Year!

From all of us here at GroupMail, we hope you all enjoyed the holiday period (or like me you stuffed yourselves with food and drink ) and that you all have a happy, healthy and successful 2009! There has been a lot happening over the past few months and we’ve been a little quiet here [...]